Live Session 1

Dear Andy,

I have been playing guitar for more than 44 years. I am currently teaching guitar and would like to know how your website can help me.

The main reason for that is that I am able to play what you are currently playing,. I hope you are able to give me greater insight into guitar techniques or guitar abilities than I have learned throughout my ‘classical guitar techniques that I have been taught over the past forty years.

If you are able to give me greater insight to what I am teaching my students, I will be most grateful. If not, why not? I believe throughout your career you are able to give my students greater insight than me. The main reason for that is that I have spent the past 30 years working as a Paramedic. I have let my musical abbilities go to insignigicance. The only people who have asked me to play for them are the people who know me, who know how well I can play guitar and have asked me to play for either their son or daughter’s weddings.

That is not who I wish to be remembered by. I want people to remember me for my ability and my vocal ability. I have taught at least 20 to 30 students over my lifetime. At leats two thirds of the students I have taught are better at playing the guitar than me. Please note that this is not a disappointment, my greatest desire through teaching guitar was to find people who could better my playing ability.

I believe I have done that. I believe that one third of my students are now better at playing guitar than me.

Please let me know how I can better myself. I play by ear. I am not able to read music. If I hear a song that I think is worth my time in learning, I will play it over and over again until I can replay it florelessly and have people recognise it. Please note, I am not robbing people of their hard work. I am doing the hard work in reproducing what they have presented.

If you have any ideas as to how I can benefit my students, I will be most grateful. If not, it has been good talking with you.

Kind regards,

Ross.

Andy,

Job well done. Your better than the majority of those sites that say they’ll make you the best guitarist in a matter of days.

Have a Great Day,
Jim

Hiya Andy, how are you? I really enjoy your site. I have been playing for a few months so I can strum along to a few chords and Im halfway to mastering barre chords and “the chop” which I think makes it sound more interesting. I have been a fan of Prince for many years and I would love to learn how to play a few funky chords like in Alphabet street, or for that matter most of his songs.

this is great,fantastic,ive recently become disabled,at the age of 48,ive decided to sit in my wheelchair and have a go at guitar,something ive wanted to do since year dot,anyway your site and lessons help me so much,but ive a question that you may think hes joking,when you say play over a chord do you mean one guitar player will be playing say a d,e,whatever chord and one guitar player will solo useing the notes in the chords he playing,also ive searched the net for a lesson on a status quo song can you please,please help,also id like to no jow brian robertson got his sound in thin lizzy,keep up the great work,thanx paddy.

Hi Gordon, thanks for your message.

Actually we have already done our first gig with the set list we have on the Membership site. It was just a short set at a local open air music festival.

With regards to your question about more new songs and new content, well beyond the initial 10 songs we have within our KickStart Package, we also update all the key parts of the site every month with new content. So, we add 2 new songs every month, with the band, for Jam Sessions plus all the teaching for both Rhythm Guitar and Lead Guitar – that’s around 50-60 videos.

We then add around 4 to 5 new well-known Riffs (short lessons to “Impress Your Friends!”), plus more content to the Skills and Techniques Library. Overall that’s around 70-80 new teaching videos in total each and every month – which is more than enough to keep you busy learning new stuff, and having fun!

In addition to the initial set list of 10 songs, we have now also recorded songs by The Stones, Tom Petty, Razorlight, Thin Lizzy, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix and more Beatles – with plenty more to follow.

Hope that answers your question, but do let me know if I can help further. Thanks again, regards Andy

Man oh man what an awesome sight. i have played the guitar for a long time and have been struggling with taking it up a step. I am very interested in the section at the last of your session about improvising and playing along with the rhythm. I to play better by ear but haven’t had a lot of opportunity to play with others and just jam. I was in a band for a short period of time and had a great time, but they didn’t know how to just jam. i look forward to the next session. Please don’t stop this sight. thanks Rex

Andy, nice presentation! Thanks for sharing. I like your open style and unpretentiousness…I’ve been playing over 30 years, but not learning the whole time……I liked your speed practice techniques and look forward to trying ‘em out. Nice Job! Thanks for what you do. I played a strat for years, just got a Jackson with EMG’s and active electrics..the fretboard has a nice feel. I’m looking to expand my blues licks by understanding how modes fit the I-IV-V progression. OK, that sounds complicated….but can you dumb it down to help me understand what I just said? Thanks for asking and I look forward to your next lesson!

i got a question next session if you know it could you show the song by acdc riff raff

Really good, I would love to see some of the 70s classics, some rod stewart, faces, stones, and more beatles please. From the 80s what about the Jam, more recent Oasiis. keep up the good work

Andy,

Good stuff…good information. Could you break it down into smalled segments…3-5 minutes per? That might make this easier to use and to select which part of your teaching we could use at a given moment.

Thanks,

nate

i really enjoy your sessions amd have learn quite a bit . the ? i have is if i use a CAPO is that the same as a drop tuning such as a drop D tuning and others.i really enjoy acostic guitar and use that to help me with the electric.i really like LED ZEPPELIN,S ten years gone but can seem to find the right sound for that song or the right chords, could you help. than you and jam on

Great session Andy. I really do think you have your own style & you have the talent to imitate other players if that’s what people want you to do. I like the way you showed little finger excersizes whith riffs of just a few notes. That is what I would like to learn to develope my own style, which I think is begining to happen. There are two leads that I would like to learn one is Sympathy for the Devil which I think is not really that terribly complicated & the way Mick Taylor uses the slide on the lead to Love in Vain which is where I would like to end up playing lead if I was going to be only a lead player, but I really like playing rythmn & want to just be able to through a few little riffs befor or after chord changes. Keep up the good work.
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I took a look at the website and the initial songbook. The question I ask myself if I was in a band with a gig, how many of these songs would I actually play? Do you have a list of all the songs which are currently available to members, as well as how many songs/month do you plan to add to the site?

Thanks

Great work, I hope you’ll find a nice way to help us learning to play the guitar in a simple, pleasant and applicable manner .
Thank you very much,
Flavio

1-4-5 major sequence 2-3-6 minor cords whats the sequence if you start with lrts say aminor

Interesting is this going to be a free site and session or is there a joining fee,and if so how much is it.
LOve to leran some of the techniques od Eric Clapton will his style be in your thoughts.
Regards.
Barry

Strikingly fresh and highly informative. The video and audio quality are without equal. Well thought out presentations. Lucky You I’m starting a new job and will be able to subscribe to this fantastic site. G’day Mate.
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